Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts

Guys deal with midlife crisises differently: Some buy sports cars; others discover woodworking; Martin decides to pursue an unexpected love affair. In the hands of any other playwright, such a plot would be ridiculous or worse. But Edward Albee didn’t win three Pulitzer Prizes for nothing. Indeed, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is a riveting tragicomedy that ranks with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Zoo Story as among Albee’s very best works. A brilliant study of the “irrational, confounding, and convention-thwarting nature of love” (The New York Times), this Tony- and Drama Desk-winning play comes to Calderwood Pavilion thanks to a new staging from Bad Habit Productions.